Clinton: Food, Energy Needs Must Be Balanced

Economists have differed on how big a factor biofuels are in food costs.

Former President Bill Clinton warned that increasing biofuel production could hurt the world's poor and fuel political instability around the globe.

Former President Bill Clinton warned that increasing biofuel production could hurt the world's poor and fuel political instability around the globe.

"We have to become energy independent. We don't want to do it at the expense of food riots," Clinton said Thursday at a USDA conference attended by agribusiness executives, farmers, economists and others.